Eh. Defragment your hard disk (SSDs don't need defragmentation, but normal hard disks DO). Windows should be doing this for you automatically, but perhaps it hasn't gotten around to optimizing the Subnautica files yet.

If you use the cmd prompt (start > run, type cmd and press enter, or just search cmd and open it), type in

defrag c: -v

and hit enter, then it will tell you how fragmented it was before and after optimization. The -v switch turns on verbose (extra information) mode, you can run it without that if you want.

Does that affect it at all?

EDIT: Oh, and replace c: with d: or whatever if you've got Subnautica on drive D or similar.

Eh. Defragment your hard disk (SSDs don't need defragmentation, but normal hard disks DO). Windows should be doing this for you automatically, but perhaps it hasn't gotten around to optimizing the Subnautica files yet.

If you use the cmd prompt (start > run, type cmd and press enter, or just search cmd and open it), type in

defrag c: -v

and hit enter, then it will tell you how fragmented it was before and after optimization. The -v switch turns on verbose (extra information) mode, you can run it without that if you want.

Does that affect it at all?

EDIT: Oh, and replace c: with d: or whatever if you've got Subnautica on drive D or similar.

Pre-optimization report: Total Fragmented space = 0%
I keep my C drive as a seperate partition of 50 gigs only for Windows and other core, vital programs ( Drivers, antivirus, etc ).
Thankfully, one of the few decent things about Windows 10 is that it defrags automatically for me. Sorry to keep grilling you here, but any other suggestions I could try?

The game often freeze for 3-10 seconds since I finished crafting the Cyclops (when I search for basics materials near the surface) and then crash. DxDiag found an accessibility problem with Direct Show that cause the application to crash when I launch DxDiag without specifying Direct Show as an exeption. Looks like my problem is pretty close to JesusChrist454s one.https://drive.google.com/open?id=0BwWxIr1Sb7ZkY1BqS3A3ZkszN3c

Do you happen to have a gsync monitor with gsync enabled for both fullscreen and windowed mode? This caused a fps cap at 24 fps for me. When I switched back to gsync for fullscreen mode only, my framerate went up again.

Do you happen to have a gsync monitor with gsync enabled for both fullscreen and windowed mode? This caused a fps cap at 24 fps for me. When I switched back to gsync for fullscreen mode only, my framerate went up again.

As I mentioned, my monitor is not capable of running G-Sync. It does not have it.

Do you happen to have a gsync monitor with gsync enabled for both fullscreen and windowed mode? This caused a fps cap at 24 fps for me. When I switched back to gsync for fullscreen mode only, my framerate went up again.

As I mentioned, my monitor is not capable of running G-Sync. It does not have it.

Yeah. Wasn't sure exactly how GSync worked when the monitor doesn't support it (does it disable itself?).

Do you happen to have a gsync monitor with gsync enabled for both fullscreen and windowed mode? This caused a fps cap at 24 fps for me. When I switched back to gsync for fullscreen mode only, my framerate went up again.

As I mentioned, my monitor is not capable of running G-Sync. It does not have it.

Yeah. Wasn't sure exactly how GSync worked when the monitor doesn't support it (does it disable itself?).

It's never there to begin with thankfully. Any more suggestions by chance?

I can't remember if you've posted your complete system specs before (after a cursory glance through your posting history, I can't seem to find it). Can you post (or re-post) your specs using one of the tools in my signature (Speccy's probably easiest)?

I can't remember if you've posted your complete system specs before (after a cursory glance through your posting history, I can't seem to find it). Can you post (or re-post) your specs using one of the tools in my signature (Speccy's probably easiest)?

Extremely high in due time. I've had a lot of personal life expenses from emergencies and moving recently that's restricted anything but necessary expenditure for a few months. However, one of my primary hard drives is starting to fail after 15 years of service and Windows 10 takes over 5 minutes to startup and login.

I've heard the Samsung 960 or whatever m.2 SSD is like 4x faster than that though lol.

Even so, I'm questioning if that's the only solution. I'm able to run multiple current generation games side by side at full graphics without slowdown ( EG: Titanfall 2, MechWarrior Online and Star Citizen ). Certainly, my setup has some problems, but no other games show it like Subnautica.

I get the impression Subnautica still has a great deal of optimization left to go through.